Author Topic: Forty eight people in the main on Saturday ??  (Read 5777 times)

Offline Bixby

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Re: Forty eight people in the main on Saturday ??
« Reply #75 on: September 08, 2022, 05:44:46 PM »
Have anyone of you died? It's a game. Jeeze, just fly and die. It's about fun!

Offline nrshida

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Re: Forty eight people in the main on Saturday ??
« Reply #76 on: September 09, 2022, 12:18:44 PM »
Have anyone of you died? It's a game. Jeeze, just fly and die. It's about fun!

Many dont want to challenge themselves.

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Re: Forty eight people in the main on Saturday ??
« Reply #77 on: September 09, 2022, 01:42:39 PM »
Have anyone of you died? It's a game. Jeeze, just fly and die. It's about fun!

I dunno about you, but I'm still kickin...

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Re: Forty eight people in the main on Saturday ??
« Reply #78 on: September 09, 2022, 02:32:09 PM »
I remember now. Well I've resubscribed today because of these two comments.  :salute


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Re: Forty eight people in the main on Saturday ??
« Reply #79 on: September 09, 2022, 05:52:51 PM »
Another giganto-map lined up for the weekend. I just wasted an hour of my Friday night chasing darbars that didn't want to be found. Glad you GV'ers and 2-hour sortie bombers are having fun though. :rolleyes:

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Re: Forty eight people in the main on Saturday ??
« Reply #80 on: September 09, 2022, 08:03:35 PM »
Need more water maps with more CV interested squads.

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Re: Forty eight people in the main on Saturday ??
« Reply #81 on: September 09, 2022, 09:14:17 PM »
Another giganto-map lined up for the weekend. I just wasted an hour of my Friday night chasing darbars that didn't want to be found. Glad you GV'ers and 2-hour sortie bombers are having fun though. :rolleyes:

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Re: Forty eight people in the main on Saturday ??
« Reply #82 on: September 09, 2022, 09:38:11 PM »
You guys keep complaining about large maps and wishing we were using small maps.  What you don't seem to realize is that these ARE the small maps.

The large maps are 500+ miles across.  The small maps are 250+ miles across.  Each sector is 25 miles across.

On Monday, 9/5, the map was Mantis.  9.5 X 9.5 sectors across.

Yesterday, 9/8, I checked in and found SMPizza.  10 sectors X about 9.75 sectors.

Just now I checked in and found CraterMA.  10.25 X 10.25 sectors.
It's been up for eight hours, so I have to ask.  Is this what Simon considers a "giganto-map"?

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Offline Simon

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Re: Forty eight people in the main on Saturday ??
« Reply #83 on: September 10, 2022, 10:36:37 AM »
It's been up for eight hours, so I have to ask.  Is this what Simon considers a "giganto-map"?

With a dozen planes in the air, spread out amongst 3 countries, yeah, the "small" maps are way too big. Just shrinking everything by 50% would be an improvement. At this point anything would be something, just to show that the devs haven't completely abandoned this game.

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Re: Forty eight people in the main on Saturday ??
« Reply #84 on: September 10, 2022, 09:52:52 PM »
9/9 10pm Pacific time:

5 Bish
25 Knights
29 Rooks

ENY limited taking off the CV to 3 fighters - two Zekes & F4U-1A

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Re: Forty eight people in the main on Saturday ??
« Reply #85 on: September 11, 2022, 02:42:16 AM »
Edit:

Meant F4U-1

I see F4F and FM2 also available.

All little to no ordinance.
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Re: Forty eight people in the main on Saturday ??
« Reply #86 on: September 11, 2022, 02:54:10 AM »
I'm wondering if - for me at least - if the numbers of players are the main thing to focus on. Side imbalances notwithstanding, since I've got back I've mostly been having 1-on-1 and 2-on-1s instead of the previously not uncommon 5-on-1 up to 9-on-1. I usual can't count above that anyway in a dogfight because I don't have enough time to take my socks off.
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Re: Forty eight people in the main on Saturday ??
« Reply #87 on: September 11, 2022, 09:19:01 AM »
CraterMA always gets stuck on the weekend, or it's BowlMA. The issue with these maps is that the others get rolled in a day, these stay up for 3-5 days. Thus making it stale for players when they constantly only play the bigger maps when they have time to play.

While it's certainly more about base layout, bigger maps still naturally scatter the players as there is no "guide to action" as I like to say. For example, you don't get more points for attacking/defending a certain area. This incentivizes players to fight in a specific area (if they want to). 20k b17s as a target on the map is atleast a 25 minute sortie to be patient enough to set up an attack. Flying 5-10 min to a base to Jabo or fight with one or 2 red dots is fun, but gets old after a couple, especially if those fighters don't want to play. Condensing the action points is where the best fights are going to be and what would bring players the more thrilling experience. Can't tell you how many times I log in and then log right back out because there is 1 or 2 red dots on a huge map at different bases and its just not even worth it for me to roll.
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Offline nrshida

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Re: Forty eight people in the main on Saturday ??
« Reply #88 on: September 11, 2022, 12:07:12 PM »
I was just in the MA. There was an awful lot of complaining about the gameplay and one fellow announced he was quitting for good. Tbh it seemed like not all that many people were actually enjoying themselves  :rofl
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Offline Tig

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Re: Forty eight people in the main on Saturday ??
« Reply #89 on: September 11, 2022, 03:19:12 PM »
There was an awful lot of complaining about the gameplay and one fellow announced he was quitting for good.

CGAR?

Well he's filled his daily quota of whining and raging. Somebody call the WAAAAAAAAAAAAMBULANCE!  :rofl

I thought he was a cool guy first time I encountered him until.....
Ah let's not open that can of worms. Long story short, he gets REALLY mad when he doesn't do well in the game.
Rather humorous to be honest, I'm not entirely sure how people can get this emotionally attached to a game.

Moral of the story, is don't be that guy, and just have fun.
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